to our Guide to Produce informational brochure

Top Ten Reasons to
Buy Organic
1. Protect future generations
Children’s immune systems are not as well equipped
as adults to deal with the effects of pesticides in their
bodies. The food choices that you make for your children
today will benefit them throughout their lives!
3. Organic production reduces health risks
Many EPA-approved pesticides were registered before
research linked them to cancer and other diseases.
Now, the EPA considers over half of all herbicides and
fungicides as potentially cancer causing.
4. Organic farming prevents soil erosion
Buying organic helps to maintain soil cover for future
generations of farmers.
5. Organic farms respect our water resources
6. Save energy
Organic farming is energy efficient, using labor-intensive
practices and not relying on energy-gobbling synthetic
fertilizers.
7. Organic farmers work in harmony
with nature
Whenever you buy organic you’re showing your
commitment to an agricultural system that keeps the
health of the Earth in mind.
Rainbow of Colors
2. Organic food tastes great
To get the nutrients you need
Eat a full spectrum of
Fruits
&
Veggies
• Carotenes from deep yellow to deep red in
butternut squash, carrots, and tomatoes.
• Anthocyanins and flavonoids, found in black,
blue and purple to reddish foods.
• White vegetables such as onions and garlic
supply allicin.
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New Frontiers
Produce
Fresh, Flavorful, Exciting
• Dark-green veggies like spinach and kale are loaded
with calcium, folic acid, vitamin K and iron, and
are rich in vitamin C, fiber, carotenoids, lutein and
flavonoids.
8. Promote Biodiversity
Conventional farming destroys the diversity in plant life,
robbing the soil of many natural minerals and nutrients.
9. Help small farmers - keep rural
communities healthy
Organic farming may be one of the few survival tactics
left for the family farm and the rural community.
10. Support a true economy
Organic farmers do not, for the most part, receive the
same level of governmental support in the form of farm
subsidies and research. More importantly, buying organic
reduces the costs to future generations as a result of air,
soil, and water pollution.
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Solvang
Flagstaff
1984 Old Mission Dr.
(corner of Alamo Pintado & Mission)
805.693.1746
1000 So. Milton
928.774.5747
San Luis Obispo
1112 Iron Springs Rd.
928.445.7370
1531 Froom Ranch Way
(Los Osos Valley Rd. near Home Depot)
805.785.0194
Prescott
Sedona
1420 West Hwy. 89A
928.282.6311
“Let food be your medicine.”
- Hippocrates
New Frontiers
Produce
Standards
Organic
We Support
B&J Ranch • Banner Mountain Sprouts • Bear Creek Orchards • Be-Wise Ranch • Beck
Grove • Blue Heron Farm • Bob Swanson Ranch • Bunny-Luv • Calimoya
Cal Organic • Capay Organics • Christopher Ranch • Cinacia • Classic Organic / Helmut
Klauer • Covilli • Cuyama Orchards • Del Cabo • Ebby’s Organic Farm Earthbound
Farms • Fairfield Farms • Fairtrasa • Fern Ridge • Ferris Family Farm • Frazier Lake /
Halperin • Friends Ranch • Full Belly Farms • Growing Concern Harmony Orchards •
Heath Ranch • Heger Farms • High Country • Hood River • Jacob Grant • Jacob’s Farm
• Jayleaf Specialties • Josanna’s Organics • Kumu Farms
Lakeside • Lagier Ranches • Las Palmalita • Lil’s Best / Quail H Farms • Michael
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• Por La Mar Nursery • Pure-Veg
Rainbow Eco-Farm • Rainbow Valley Orchards • Ranchero Deluxe • Rancho del Sol •
We proudly partner
Riverdog • Route One • Ruby Ridge • Something Good/Givens • Stehly Farms
with
them to bring you the
Stemilt Farms • Sunny Valley • Terra Firma • Tutti Frutti Farms • Viva Tierra
freshest,
most flavorful
fruits
• Wild River • Wilgenburg Greenhouses
• Willey Farms
• Willow Creek
Organic
Farmers
and vegetables.
An agricultural system which
promotes biodiversity and
ecological balance, without the use
of synthetic chemical fertilizers
and pesticides, sewage sludge,
bioengineering, or radiation.
Produced in accordance
with USDA National
Organic Standards.
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New Frontiers
Farm
New Frontiers has our own organic farm where we grow
organic fruits and vegetables to be sold in our stores.
It’s a bug eat bug world out
there! Beneficial insects, such
as ladybugs, are our primary
method of pest control. Adult
ladybugs can eat up to a 1000
aphids a day!
In ancient times, ladybugs
were one of the indicators
of good fortune and a
bountiful harvest.
Pesticide-Free
Grown without the use of pesticides. Wax free. May
include food grown on farms that are in transition from
conventional to organic.
Conventional
An agricultural system characterized by
mechanization, monocultures, and the
use of synthetic chemical fertilizers and
pesticides.
Local
or
A glimpse at our
“Locally-grown in California” means
grown in Santa Barbara, San Luis
Obispo, and neighboring counties.
(thus reducing transportation and
handling costs, and preserving the
heritage and culture of our community.)
Many local products are grower-direct. “Locally-grown in
Arizona” means: We define locally grown
as produce that travels less than a day
(7 or fewer hours) from farm to store.
Many local products are grower-direct.
New Frontiers is committed to providing
a wide selection of the freshest, tastiest,
highest quality food.
We actively seek local and organic food
sources whenever possible.
We plant cover crops
and plow them under to
supply fresh organic matter
to the soil, improve soil
structure, add nitrogen,
protect soil from erosion,
and as a tool to manage
weeds and other pests.
Blooming fresh
flowers are planted
throughout the farm
to establish
a beneficial insect
habitat and to
add natural beauty.
GROWN
on our own farm